Guest guest Posted March 5, 2001 Report Share Posted March 5, 2001 >Mukunda, Krishna is the *only* giver of true liberation. No one else other >than Krishna can give true liberation. Yes, Srila Prabhupada quotes in BG 7.14 Lord Siva as saying: mukti-prad€t€ sarve€ˆ viŠur eva na saˆayaƒ: “There is no doubt that ViŠu is the deliverer of liberation for everyone.” In their capacity of specially empowered devatas, who are like an interface between material and spiritual world, Lord Siva and Goddess Durga can give only impersonal liberation. Srila Sanatana Goswami specifies in the quote, that the ability to give liberation was granted to them by Lord Krsna. But in their capacity as greatest Vaisnavas (vaisnavanam yatha sambhuh) they may grant pure devotional service, because Lord Krsna gives them, as any other pure Vaisnava, the power and, indeed, the charge to do so. Lord Siva even started his own Rudra sampradaya, and many exalted Vaisnavas, including Srila Sridhara Swami and Vallabhacarya appeared in it. Some Vaisnava historians say that Srila Bilvamangala Thakura also belonged to his sampradaya too. Yet, as a humble devotee, Lord Siva does not ever think himself capable of giving devotional service or even liberation to anybody, and later on in Brhad Bhagavatamrta himself dismisses all praises by Narada as mere exaggeration by saying (3.37): lokeso jnana-do jnani mukto mukti-prado 'py aham bhakto bhakti-prado visnor ity-ady-aham-kriyavrtah "I am covered by various false identities. I consider myself the lord of the universe, the perfect knower of everything and giver of knowledge, the liberated giver of liberation, and a devoted giver of devotion to Visnu." Your servant, Madana-mohana das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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